Editing Voice browser

{{Short description|Interactive voice user interface}}
A '''voice browser''' is a [[Application software|software application]] that presents an interactive [[voice user interface]] to the user in a manner analogous to the functioning of a [[web browser]] interpreting [[Hypertext Markup Language]] (HTML). Dialog documents interpreted by voice browser are often encoded in standards-based markup languages, such as [[VoiceXML|Voice Dialog Extensible Markup Language]] (VoiceXML), a standard by the  [[World Wide Web Consortium]].

A voice browser presents information aurally, using pre-recorded audio file playback or [[Speech synthesis|text-to-speech]] synthesis software.  A voice browser obtains information using [[speech recognition]] and keypad entry, such as [[DTMF]] detection. 

As speech recognition and web technologies have matured, voice applications are deployed commercially in many industries and voice browsers are supplanting traditional proprietary [[interactive voice response]] (IVR) systems. Voice browser software is delivered in a variety of implementations models.

Systems that present a voice browser to a user, typically provide interfaces to the [[public switched telephone network]] or to a [[private branch exchange]].

==See also==
*[[Call Control eXtensible Markup Language]] (CCXML)
*[[Speech Recognition Grammar Specification]] (SRGS)
*[[Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition]] (SISR)
*[[Speech Synthesis Markup Language]] (SSML)
*[[Pronunciation Lexicon Specification]] (PLS)
*[[ECMAScript]] - Scripting language supported by most voice browsers

==External links==
* [http://www.w3.org/Voice/#imp-vxml W3C's list of VoiceXML browsers]
* [http://www.kenrehor.com/voicexml/#platforms/ Ken Rehor's VoiceXML platform list]
* VoiceXML Forum
* [http://www.w3.org/Voice/ W3C Voice Browser Working Group]
* [http://www.voximal.com/ Voximal the VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk PBX]
* VoiceXML Development Guide
* Voice Browsing IE Toolbar by Yan Michalevsky
* [http://code.google.com/p/metalmouth/ Project metalmouth - Developing an open source voice browser extension for Chrome]

[[Category:Web browsers]]
[[Category:Speech synthesis]]